Shaul R. Shenhav
2025
HebID: Detecting Social Identities in Hebrew-language Political Text
Guy Mor-Lan
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Naama Rivlin-Angert
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Yael R. Kaplan
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Tamir Sheafer
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Shaul R. Shenhav
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2025
Political language is deeply intertwined with social identities. While social identities are often shaped by specific cultural contexts, existing NLP datasets are predominantly English-centric and focus on coarse-grained identity categories. We introduce HebID, the first multilabel Hebrew corpus for social identity detection. The corpus contains 5,536 sentences from Israeli politicians’ Facebook posts (Dec 2018-Apr 2021), with each sentence manually annotated for twelve nuanced social identities (e.g., Rightist, Ultra-Orthodox, Socially-oriented) selected based on their salience in national survey data. We benchmark multilabel and single-label encoders alongside 2B-9B-parameter decoder LLMs, finding that Hebrew-tuned LLMs provide the best results (macro-F1 = 0.74). We apply our classifier to politicians’ Facebook posts and parliamentary speeches, evaluating differences in popularity, temporal trends, clustering patterns, and gender-related variations in identity expression. We utilize identity choices from a national public survey, comparing the identities portrayed in elite discourse with those prioritized by the public. HebID provides a comprehensive foundation for studying social identities in Hebrew and can serve as a model for similar research in other non-English political contexts
2024
IsraParlTweet: The Israeli Parliamentary and Twitter Resource
Guy Mor-Lan
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Effi Levi
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Tamir Sheafer
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Shaul R. Shenhav
Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024)
We introduce IsraParlTweet, a new linked corpus of Hebrew-language parliamentary discussions from the Knesset (Israeli Parliament) between the years 1992-2023 and Twitter posts made by Members of the Knesset between the years 2008-2023, containing a total of 294.5 million Hebrew tokens. In addition to raw text, the corpus contains comprehensive metadata on speakers and Knesset sessions as well as several linguistic annotations. As a result, IsraParlTweet can be used to conduct a wide variety of quantitative and qualitative analyses and provide valuable insights into political discourse in Israel.